Hatred: the First Reaction to Truth

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If anyone in a discussion with us is not concerned with adjusting himself to truth, if he has no wish to find the truth, he is intellectually a barbarian. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

The first reaction to truth is hatred. – Tertullian

Truth hath a quiet breast. – William Shakespeare

Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. – John Fletcher

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau

No generalization is wholly true, not even this one. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You cannot conceive the many without the one. – Plato